Studio Museum in Harlem: ‘The Shadows Took Shape’ (through March 9) Space is definitely the place in this lively group exhibition devoted to Afrofuturism, a contemporary art trend that takes the ultra-free-jazz musician Sun Ra as its patron saint and locates itself in a universe where racial and ethnic identities float free from stereotypes without losing track of the histories that created them. William Villalongo sets African sculpture and modernist painting soaring together among the stars; the Kenyan artist Wanuri Kahiu films ecological cataclysm and renewal in ages to come; William Cordova, who lives in New York and Lima, Peru, recreates the Falcon spaceship from George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” now equipped with a cultural studies library. 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500, studiomuseum.org.
- Holland Cotter